Effect of Polarisation Functions on to Errors of Ab-initio Calculations for Ibuprofen
Abstract
Computational algorithms, which aimed to solve quantum mechanical equations for molecules, usually produces more errors about the bonds which involves Hydrogens, than the others. Actually this fact is more or less expected, due to unique properties of Hydrogen atoms, such as carrying just single electron for making bonds with other atoms.
Computational approaches, unlike the analogue solutions, usually neglect many parameters, under some reasonable assumptions of course, to reduce complexity of quantum systems to some computable ranges. Actually all practical quantum computations can be considered as managing the “neglecting process”, by keeping the balance between reduced complexity and acceptable correctness.
Polarisation is one of those parameters that usually neglected, for quantum molecular computations about molecules.
On the other hand, Hydrogen has a serious capability of being strongly polarised, due to possibility of existence of semi or fully naked protons, when it constructs a bond structure.
Within this point of view, it is needed to analyse the effect of adding polarisation functions, on to calculation errors, especially for hydrogens, by hoping to reduce big calculation errors about them.
Here, we added polarisation functions to optimisation calculations of ibuprofen molecule, to see the effect of polarisation functions to the errors of computed bond lengths. We have compared the results to X-RAY data.
Finally it is concluded that, more polarisation function reduces the calculation errors, but it is not worth to increased computational costs.
Keywords
Kaynakça
- Boese, A. D. (2015). Density Functional Theory and Hydrogen Bonds: Are We There Yet? ChemPhysChem, 16(5), 978–985. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201402786
- Derollez, P., Dudognon, E., Affouard, F., Danède, F., Correia, N. T., & Descamps, M. (2010). Ab initio structure determination of phase II of racemic ibuprofen by X-ray powder diffraction. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, 66(1), 76–80. https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108768109047363
- Dykstra, C., Frenking, G., & Kim, K. (2011). Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry: The First Forty Years. Retrieved from http://qut.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=269993
- Hohenberg, P., & Kohn, W. (1964). Inhomogeneous Electron Gas. Physical Review, 136(3B), B864–B871. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.136.B864
- Ireta, J., Neugebauer, J., & Scheffler, M. (2004). On the Accuracy of DFT for Describing Hydrogen Bonds: Dependence on the Bond Directionality. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108(26), 5692–5698. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0377073
- Rozas, I. (2007). On the nature of hydrogen bonds: An overview on computational studies and a word about patterns. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 9(22), 2782. https://doi.org/10.1039/b618225a
- Schmidt, M. W., Baldridge, K. K., Boatz, J. A., Elbert, S. T., Gordon, M. S., Jensen, J. H., … Montgomery, J. A. (1993). General atomic and molecular electronic structure system. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 14(11), 1347–1363. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.540141112
- Stevens, W. J., Krauss, M., Basch, H., & Jasien, P. G. (1992). Relativistic compact effective potentials and efficient, shared-exponent basis sets for the third-, fourth-, and fifth-row atoms. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 70(2), 612–630. https://doi.org/10.1139/v92-085
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Mühendislik
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
31 Ekim 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
1 Ağustos 2019
Kabul Tarihi
24 Ekim 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019